HOW TO MAKE NATURAL DYE WITH SPINACH | ORGANIC COLOR | GREEN

Spinach is a natural way to create green dye for your textile and craft projects by using food from your kitchen or garden. Did you forget the spinach in the back of your fridge? Even better! Wilted leaves that are past their prime can help coax out that green dye. This tutorial will show you how to brew a subtle green dye, as well as the resulting color swatch samples (cotton & silk) with various mordants.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction - Spinach dye
1:30 Supplies
2:20 How to make dye
5:30 Color samples on cotton & silk
6:07 Sneak peek of next tutorial

SUPPLY LIST
Spinach
Baking soda
Cutting board
Pot with lid
Knife
Spoon
Measuring cup
Measuring spoon
Strainer
Storage container
Mason jar

ABOUT MY CHANNEL
Color Quest is a creative channel where we explore the wide world of natural color! If you love using organic materials in all of your arts & crafts projects, join me as I share tutorials and vlogs on how to find and create a rainbow of color from plants and the earth they live in.

I'm passionate about natural dyes and pigments which I use extensively in my art practice, so I'm thrilled to share my curiosity, excitement and knowledge of nature's palette with you.

xoxo - Margaret, aka Byrdie

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MUSIC:
Playground Fun
by Ahjay Stelino

Ukelele Song

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[jether_vargas]

this is so cool I didnt know someone dedicages in dying I use to dye all my clothes in HS specially when I graduated I dyed all my uniform from white to all sorts of color this really helps, thank yoj for making this video

[sanjnagidwani]

I just love your idea about natural dye omg I love the cabbage video and after that I can't cantrol my to see all the other videos in just one day and I am also making some notes for my future projects ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[riyana]

Thank you so much, you're a big help for my research!

[svt_carat]

Amazing ..thankyou , its useful for my environmental studies project ...and music made the video more exciting to watch 💝

[Nbtxty]

Your channel looks so professional I don’t know how you only have like 800 subs

[scathson]

I think the whole process could be made much easier just by using a block of frozen spinach since it is already broken down by the freezing process - anyway, fun video and a good experiment despite not really coming up with much in the way of green (although i liked the shade on the silk) so spinach is probably not the way to go

[ItsJustSherirea]

Fun!! I’m starting this journey today!!❤❤

[joann]

You show how to make the dye, however, why do you leave out how to actually dye the cloth, fabric, etc.

[drewtweedie]

Hi Margaret, I was wondering if you had any experience using spinach as a leave-in hair dye. Would avocado help at all with color + emulsifying? Thanks for your time!

[theresabass]

I have a question. If the leaves become soggy instead of dry because they we I the fridge too long is the spinach still good for making dye out of it?

[sedoniadragotta]

Nettel or chards or bittervgreens like chicory makes deeper greens

[kathylewis]

Why have I heard wilted spinach releases a teal color??? Thank you.

[geetikalohani]

Love ur content! ❤️❤️ Would like if u could elaborate upon how to make the different type of cotton swatches and the varying result of dying in them.. And cudnt really see the end result clearly..

[vanessaboman]

New Sunnis here From the SE UK ... wonderful find for me!

[elijahoconnell]

im wondering if you can make tattoos with this. recently ive taken a slight interest into ancient celt and pict paints and dyes, so is there a way to tattoo with this?

[barbaracabrera]

*** QUESTION: I THINK video shows bring to boil, and then let cool??? You DO NOT SIMMER IT??? ***
Thank you for video. I'm really enjoying your videos this morning.
Austin, TX USA

[tori]

i wonder if you could just use color theory and mix a natural indigo dye with a natural turmeric yellow dye to get your darker green? However for a pastel green this is definitely the way to go!! great channel! just subscribed!!

[kathylbillings]

I really enjoy your videos. You do a fantastic job. I need a bit of help. At the end of your Spinach video, where you show the fabric swatches, you label the results using a mordant of soy milk or alum. My question is how much of either the soy milk or the alum should I use? I want to dye cotton cheese cloth and a Fat Quarter of muslin, and also I’d like to dye some paper. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[susantabanerjee]

How I can make bottole green colour through natural dye process ?

[gaianeg]

Thank you for sharing. I just want to know why did you put soda.